Where God Left His Shoes

Name: Where God Left His Shoes
Genre: Drama
Released: December 12, 2008
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 61

2008

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IFC Films | Release Date: December 12, 2008

Summary: Where God Left His Shoes is the story of Frank, Angela, and their two children. When they are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. After a few difficult months, a glimmer of hope arrives on Christmas Eve: a nearby housing project has an apartment available immediately. TheWhere God Left His Shoes is the story of Frank, Angela, and their two children. When they are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. After a few difficult months, a glimmer of hope arrives on Christmas Eve: a nearby housing project has an apartment available immediately. The catch is that Frank needs a job in order to qualify. While the rest of the city prepares for Christmas, Frank and his ten-year-old stepson, Justin, roam the cold streets of the city trying to find a job by day's end so that they have a home on Christmas morning. (IFC Films)… Expand

Director: Salvatore Stabile

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 96 min

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Writer-director Salvatore Stabile has a good eye for the details of hard-luck ordinariness, and he sketches believable family bonds with a minimum of flourish. Read full review

David Edelstein

The acting, the on-the-fly atmosphere (the film was shot quickly), and Leguizamo's increasingly urgent hustle are deeply evocative, but parts of the movie are almost too painful to endure. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Piles the pathos high as if to see how many hard-luck cliches its pugilist hero can fend off without succumbing to schmaltz. Given John Leguizamo's knockout perf, sentimentality never dares raise its head, and the improbably stacked deck from which his character is dealt gives the pic's would-be "neo-realist" premise a peculiar edge. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Leguizamo, working at a scramble, gets more on-screen traction than in recent memory. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Stabile keeps his affecting story hurtling forward with such grit and integrity it's easy to forgive its loaded setup and occasional lapses in detail and logic. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Although Mr. Leguizamo wisely underplays a role that is just short of saintly, the character is still a filmmaker's bogus, bleeding-heart contrivance in a movie that is much less truthful than it pretends to be. Read full review

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